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Bug 93000 - history popup on toolbar
history popup on toolbar
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.0.2
Other other
: Low enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
gedit QA volunteers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-09-11 05:38 UTC by kz
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description kz 2002-09-11 05:33:47 UTC 
Package: gedit
Severity: enhancement
Version: GNOME2.0.1 2.0.2
Synopsis: history popup on toolbar
Bugzilla-Product: gedit
Bugzilla-Component: general
Description:
my best frequent job is doing with document history.
so the File > Recent Files is my lovely menuitem.

and I feel the steps:
 1. open File menu 2. activate Recent Files 3. activate targeted file
is better to be shortcut as:
 1. click on down arrow beside Open icon on toolbar
 2. activate targeted file

what about this?




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-09-11 01:33 -------

Reassigning to the default owner of the component, maggi@athena.polito.it.
Comment 1 Paolo Maggi 2002-09-11 08:02:16 UTC 
cc-ing usability guys.

I don't know if this is a good idea since I don't think a normal user
will use it so often and I don't want to add rarely used functions in
the toolbar.

BTW, in gedit CVS HEAD the list of recent files is in the file menu
directly and not in the Recent Files submenu.
Comment 2 Calum Benson 2002-09-11 14:11:40 UTC 
It's certainly an interesting idea and I don't think I've ever heard
suggested before... actually I quite like the sound of it, but that's
without actually trying it of course :)

However, I think we'd have to standardize on how to do it (and write
it into the HIG) before encouraging people to actually use it in their
applications.  Otherwise we'll end up with some applications using it
and some not, which would be inconsistent and annoying for users.
Comment 3 Andrew Sobala 2002-09-11 14:36:06 UTC 
I've opened bug 93033 against the HIG containing this suggestion and
put usability and Kang in the Cc.

Closing this bug.
Comment 4 James Willcox 2002-09-12 01:13:11 UTC 
I would be happy to add this feature into the current recent-file
code.  I don't think it would be very difficult, and I like the idea.
Comment 5 James Willcox 2002-10-17 03:41:12 UTC 
This feature is now in gedit CVS.
Comment 6 Jeff Waugh 2002-10-17 03:44:40 UTC 
I'd just like to add that this is a particularly cool and, I feel,
innovative feature. I would love to see this added to the HIG for
document-centric GNOME software.

Thanks very much to Kang for reporting it -> did you pick this up from
another source? Just interested in whatever prior art exists.